US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals on June 23 for "Multi-stage bubble-column vapor mixture condensation" (Canadian, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,605, issued on June 23, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Multi-stage bubble-column vapor mixture condensation" was invented by Prakash Narayan Govindan (Singapore), Gregory P. Thiel (Belmont, Mass.), Ronan K. McGovern (Cambridge, Mass.), John H. Lienhard (Lexington, Mass.) and Mostafa H. Elsharqawy (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for condensing a vapor uses a multi-stage bubble-column vapor mixture condenser that includes at least a first stage, a second stage, and a third stage, each with a carri...